World Mental Health Day Oct 10, 2019.

Is the world getting crazier, or is that just a mental malfunction?


We keep doing the same things over and over again…Trump and us…expecting a different result.  

Change is coming…but it won’t be an improvement until we use our minds for solving problems instead of defending faulty principles.


https://wfmh.global/world-mental-health-day/


How healthy can we be if we are well adjusted to a profoundly sick society?

How can we be mentally healthy if our mind has the capacity to believe anything?

And not do what we know we should.

Or get distracted from important things by trivial things?


Here’s a hypothesis.

Our mind evolved as a problem-solving tool allowing us to find food, a mate, shelter, and develop tools for making our lives easier and initially safer.  But most of those primal needs/desires are mostly taken care of now and our minds somehow started protecting ideas/concepts/beliefs that are ultimately harmful to our body and spirit.  And eventually lethal to our minds capacity to remember what’s really important and use what we know to solve important and increasingly urgent problems.

Too many people will now kill and/or die to protect a belief, idea, or concept.  We will go broke, weak, or ill from investing our limited time and money in things that only hurt us in the long run, as well as those we love, our nation, and even nature that we ultimately depend on for survival.

Our minds are now challenged by fake news and eventually deep fakes.  We debate issues passionately believing everything we think. And, hating those that disagree with us.


Making matters worse, we have forgotten that there are "Truths" that "we hold" to be "Self-evident”… that all people are created equal and endowed with certain rights.  


The dysfunction in our government and our democracy is going to get worse before it gets better.  Why?
Because we are more likely to suffer things that are sufferable…until motivated to change by significant pain and suffering, than to make them right before suffering.


The CIA has a saying “There’s no problem that can’t be solved with a well placed explosive.”  

We would be so much wiser to solve problems using our minds guided by our hearts (the Golden Rule) instead of our wallet, comforts, or foolish ideologies.